Seaside Strummers Band - Seaside Uke Strummers

Seaside Uke Strummers
(Scarborough Ukulele Club)
Songbook 2
http://seasideukestrummers.weebly.com seasideukes@gmail.com
Twitter @seasideukes
June 2014
Contents
Page
Bye Bye Love ….............................................................. 1
Golden Brown …...............................................................2
Hit The Road Jack …....................................................... 3
I Wanna Be Like You …................................................... 4
I'm Into Something Good …............................................ 5
Last Train To Clarksville ….............................................. 6
Oh Boy …........................................................................ 7
Rockin All Over The World ….......................................... 8
My Generation …............................................................ 9
Seaside Strummers Band …...........................................10
Under The Boardwalk ….................................................11
Updated 1/6/14
All songs are acknowledged to composer, these are our versions.
Note: apologies for the quality of some printed songs, this will be improved.
Bye Bye Love (In C major)
Intro (chorus)
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye happiness.
F
C
G7 C
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry.
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress.
F
C
G7
C
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
G7
C
Bye bye my love, goodbye
C
G
G7
C
There goes my baby with someone new
G
G7
C
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue.
C7
F
G7
She was my baby till he stepped in.
Dm
G7
C
Goodbye romance that might have been.
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye happiness.
F
C
G7 C
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry.
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress.
F
C
G7
C
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
G7
C
Bye bye my love, goodbye
C
G
G7
C
I'm through with romance, I'm through with love.
G
G7
C
I'm through with counting the stars above.
C7
F
G7
And here's the reason that I'm so free,
Dm G7
C
My loving baby is through with me
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye happiness.
F
C
G7 C
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry.
F
C F
C
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress.
F
C
G7
C
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
G7
C
Bye bye my love, goodbye
G7
C
Bye bye my love, goodbye
By Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
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Golden Brown by the Stranglers
In ¾ time – suggested strum: D D u u D D D
1 2 3& 1 2 3
Riff 1 (played for Dm & C chords at any time)
A-------------------------E----------5--3--0------C---2--5------------0---G-------------------------Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Dm C Dm C
Dm C Dm C
Riff 1
[Dm]Golden [C]brown [Dm]texture like [C]sun
[Dm]Lays me [C]down with [Dm]my mind she [C]runs
[Dm]Throughout the [C]night
[Dm]No need to [C]fight
[Dm]Never a [C]frown [Dm]with golden [C]brown
[Dm] [C] [Dm] [C]
[Dm]Every [C]time [Dm]just like the [C]last
[Dm]On her [C]ship [Dm]tied to the [C]mast
[Dm]To distant [C]lands
[Dm]Takes both my [C]hands
[Dm]Never a [C]frown [Dm]with golden [C]brown
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Dm C Dm C
Dm C Dm C
Instrumental solo A ---7--8-- (repeated)--8--10-- (lasts for Am Em F C Am)
Riff 1
[Dm]Golden [C]Brown, [Dm]finer [C]temptress
[Dm]Through the [C]ages [Dm]she's heading [C]west
[Dm]From far [C]away
[Dm]Stays for a [C]day
[Dm]Never a [C]frown [Dm]with golden [C]brown
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Am Em F C
Dm C Dm C
Dm C Dm C
Am
Instrumental solo A ---7--8-- (repeated)--8--10-- (lasts for Am Em F C Am)
A--------12--10--7--5--3--0-- (riff 2 – same timing as riff 1)
Page 2
(one strum to end)
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(pause)
Du du du …........ (x 2 A capella)
(pause)
Page 6
REPEAT THE WHOLE SONG
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Cx2
By Status Quo
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n noN
My Generation – The Who
(Without key changes or bass solo)
Suggested strum = D D du du (not intro)
riff for verses!
A-----------------------E-----------------------C-2-2-4-4-5-5-4-2-----G-------------------------
No strumming for first half of each line on the verses (could mute G with single down strums)
Intro:
G /// F ///
G /// F ///
G
(All straight down strums)
G
F
G
(4 bars for each line of 4/4)
People try to put us d-down - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
Just because we get around - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
Things they do look awful c-c-cold - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
I hope I die before I get old - Talkin' 'bout my generation
F G
My generation
F G
F
G
My generation, baby
G
F
G
Why don't you all f-fade away - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation - Talkin' 'bout my generation
F G
My generation
F G
F
G
My generation, baby
G
F
G
Why don't you all f-fade away - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation - Talkin' 'bout my generation
F G
My generation
F G
F
G
My generation, baby
G
F
G
People try to put us d-down - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
Just because we get around - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
G
Things they do look awful c-c-cold - Talkin' 'bout my generation
G
F
I hope I die before I get old - Talkin' 'bout my generation
F G
My generation
F G
F
G
My generation, baby
F
G
F
G
My my my generation, My my my generation
F G (end with chords on their own)
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Seaside Strummers Band
(Alexander's Ragtime Band - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbtwoDxhQM
Suggested strum D D d u D - count 1 2 3 & 4
Start note = open E string
C
G7
C
C7
Come on and hear, come on and hear, it's the Seaside Strummers Band,
F
Come on and hear, come on and hear, it's the Uke band of the land,
C
They can strum a little Uke with a rhythm oh so strong,
So magnifique that you want to sing along.
D7
G7
That is the bestest band what am, oh my honey lamb
C
G7
C
C7
Come on along, come on along let me take you by the hand
F
Up to the man, up to the man who's the leader of the band
C
C7
F
F#dim
And if you wanna hear the Strummers played in Uke time
C
G7
C
C7
Come on and hear, come on and hear it's the Seaside Strummers Band,
C
G7
C
G7 C
Come on and hear, come on and hear it's the Seaside Strummers Band.
F#dim for Baritone Uke
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PLAY THE WHOLE SONG TWICE
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